Religious idleness#
Summary#
A genuine religious life requires outward idleness or semi-idleness for its microscopic self-examination and the soft placidity of prayer. This idleness with good conscience belongs to the aristocratic sentiment that considers work dishonouring. Modern laboriousness, by contrast, educates toward unbelief: those absorbed in business, pleasures, and newspapers have no time for religion and have lost their religious instincts across generations, no longer understanding what purpose religions serve.